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Fake Reporter Is Real News

    FEBRUARY 24, 2005 5AM EST

Find out more about calls for the investigation of
Jeff Gannon, fake reporters and real news at:
The American Street.

Faux Ho vs MoDo: Gannon, Maureen Dowd Tangle

IN HOUSE

OUT HOUSE

Maureen Dowd Wants to Know Why Faux and Ho Is in When MoDo Is Out

The Heretik's Research Assistant Helps Her With Some Answers

From her Feb 17,2005 NY Times column

I am very impressed with James Guckert, a k a Jeff Gannon.

The Heretik's Research Assistant thinks you are hiding something, kind of like Jeffy Boy.

How often does an enterprising young man, heralded in press reports as both a reporter and a contributor to such sites as Hotmilitarystud.com, Workingboys.net, Militaryescorts.com, MilitaryescortsM4M.com and Meetlocalmen.com, get to question the president of the United States?

Apparently at least once last month, MoDo.

Who knew that a hotmilitarystud wanting to meetlocalmen could so easily get to be face2face with the commander in chief?

Nobody yesterday, more and more people tomorrow.

It's hard to believe the White House could hit rock bottom on credibility again, but it has, in a bizarre maelstrom that plays like a dark comedy. How does it credential a man with a double life and a secret past?

You should actually be asking this question about the President to his face when they finally let you in at a White House Press conference, which is currently scheduled never.

"Jeff Gannon" was waved into the press room nearly every day for two years as the conservative correspondent for two political Web sites operated by a wealthy Texas Republican. Scott McClellan often called on the pseudoreporter for softball questions.

Are there any poor Texas Republicans that own political websites?

Howard Kurtz reported in The Washington Post yesterday that although Mr. Guckert had denied launching the provocative Web sites - one described him as " 'military, muscular, masculine and discrete' (sic)" - a Web designer in California said "that he had designed a gay escort site for Gannon and had posted naked pictures of Gannon at the client's request."

Naked truth?  He was Guckert when naked.  I never guckert, naked or clothed.

And The Wilmington News-Journal in Delaware reported that Mr. Guckert was delinquent in $20,700 in personal income tax from 1991 to 1994.

I'm still mystified by this story. I was rejected for a White House press pass at the start of the Bush administration, but someone with an alias, a tax evasion problem and Internet pictures where he posed like the "Barberini Faun" is credentialed to cover a White House that won a second term by mining homophobia and preaching family values?

Yes.  But you already knew that.  In the next four years Cheney plans to mine more than homophobia.  They will drill for oil everywhere too.

At first when I tried to complain about not getting my pass renewed, even though I'd been covering presidents and first ladies since 1986, no one called me back. Finally, when Mr. McClellan replaced Ari Fleischer, he said he'd renew the pass - after a new Secret Service background check that would last several months.

Several month? I heard you were bad but not that bad.

In an era when security concerns are paramount, what kind of Secret Service background check did James Guckert get so he could saunter into the West Wing every day under an assumed name while he was doing full-frontal advertising for stud services for $1,200 a weekend?

Full frontal advertising?  Is that like full frontal nudity?  At the times, isn't it all the nudes thats fit to print?

He used a driver's license that said James Guckert to get into the White House, then, once inside, switched to his alter ego, asking questions as Jeff Gannon.

Used a driver's license?  Somehow Sean "Insanity" Hannity willl turn this into how Gannon was driven from his job.

Mr. McClellan shrugged this off to Editor & Publisher magazine, oddly noting, "People use aliases all the time in life, from journalists to actors."

I'm not an actor, I just play one on TV.   

I know the F.B.I. computers don't work, but this is ridiculous. After getting gobsmacked by the louche sagas of Mr. Guckert and Bernard Kerik, the White House vetters should consider adding someone with some blogging experience.

Peggy Noonan is way ahead of you on this, red.  Like two hours.

Does the Bush team love everything military so much  that even a military-stud Web site is a recommendation?

Yes.

Or maybe Gannon/Guckert's willingness to shill free for the White House, even on gay issues, was endearing. One of his stories mocked John Kerry's "pro-homosexual platform" with the headline "Kerry Could Become First Gay President."

Won't touch this even with Gannon's byline.

With the Bushies, if you're their friend, anything goes. If you're their critic, nothing goes. They're waging a jihad against journalists - buying them off so they'll promote administration programs, trying to put them in jail for doing their jobs and replacing them with ringers.

Did you say jihad?

At last month's press conference, Jeff Gannon asked Mr. Bush how he could work with Democrats "who seem to have divorced themselves from reality." But Bush officials have divorced themselves from reality.

Did you say reality?

They flipped TV's in the West Wing and Air Force One to Fox News. They paid conservative columnists handsomely to promote administration programs. Federal agencies distributed packaged "news" video releases with faux anchors so local news outlets would run them. As CNN reported, the Pentagon produces Web sites with "news" articles intended to influence opinion abroad and at home, but you have to look hard for the disclaimer: "Sponsored by the U.S. Department of Defense." The agencies spent a whopping $88 million spinning reality in 2004, splurging on P.R. contracts.

Too much info, MoDo.  Go back to your first sentence. They flipped.  Period.

Even the Nixon White House didn't do anything this creepy. It's worse than hating the press. It's an attempt to reinvent it. 

Jeff Gannon: Watch What Ari Fleischer Said, Did

Fake, Fake, Fake: Jeff Gannon Part 6

From: Editor & Publisher

 

With the knowledge that neither the mainstream media nor the general public yet have the attention span to deal with the reality of a gay pornmongering possible prostitute posing as a reporter at the White House to ask softball questions to the President, The Heretik here offers a quick speed read of former White House Press Secretary Ari Fleischer's take on fake reporter "Jeff Gannon" in an interview with Editor and Publisher.
It will be over before you know it, which may be the the approach The White House has worked from all along.

Ari Fleischer: I found out that he (Gannon) worked for a GOP site, and I didn't think it was my place to call on him  . . . Eberle, owner  . . . . GOPUSA . . . not part of the Republican Party . . . advocates, not reporters. . .   line should be drawn . . .   a conservative question . . . whenever . . . called on . . . you know you will. . . last thing our nation needs is . . .  the private lives of reporters . . . decide who gets to be a reporter . . . all a bit odd . . .knowing . . .   a fake . . .  I don’t know . . .  there is room for a little weirdness




 

Fake, Fake, Fake: The Search for the Real Jeff Gannon Begins

The Heretik has a favor to ask.  If Jim Guckert is not Jeff Gannon, who is?  Jeff Gannon must be out there somewhere, lost and helpless.

If you have seen the real Jeff Gannon, check in here as soon as possible.
Those of you who are not Jeff Gannon can be a big help.  The True Identity Forces only have so much time going through people's backgrounds, even if they were were using Poindexter's Total Information Awareness System.

Help the search by taking yourself out of the running.  If you are NOT Jeff Gannon, contact the Culture Ghost at the link below

The CultureGhost: I'm Not Jeff Gannon..

 

Fake, Fake, Fake, Continued

 
Daily Kos, among others, has been all over the story  here.

A fake journalist with a fake name working for a fake news organization asks what kind of questions?

Fake, Fake, Fake

A fake journalist with a fake name working for a fake news organization asks what kind of questions?
Digging for the truth continues here  in Salon with a story Eric Boehlert.